Each Fall, SUNY Oneonta chooses a book for their Common Read and this year's book is Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson is known as the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice that represents the poor, wrongly condemned, and women and children. In his book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption he writes of the unfairness and inequality that he and his clients experience from the justice system.